''Wind of Change'' is the debut studio album by English rock musician

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. It was released in 1972. The album features appearances by

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and

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Background

Peter Frampton decided to remain with

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's U.S. label A&M, and assembled an impressive supporting cast including

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members Mick Jones and

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, and former Herd member

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, for his first solo effort following his departure from Humble Pie in 1971. The self-produced debut album was engineered by

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, who had worked on Humble Pie's '' Rock On''. Frampton and Kimsey together introduced a melodic sensibility that contrasted with the raucous boogie that characterized the Humble Pie sound, with a particular emphasis on Frampton's

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work. Kimsey continued to work with Frampton on the production of his albums throughout the 1970s. Many of the songs on ''Wind of Change'' are built primarily around acoustic guitar foundations, but the inclusion of such songs as "It's a Plain Shame", and "All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)" have a hard rock edge, as does an extended reworking of the

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", which was the project's only non-Frampton composition. The brass arrangements in this latter song and "The Lodger", performed by Jim Price, are strongly reminiscent of that in the Rolling Stones' song "Bitch", recorded the previous year, in which Price participated.

Track listing

All songs written by

except "

", written by

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and

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. Side One # "Fig Tree Bay" – 3:36 # "Wind of Change" – 3:05 # "Lady Lieright" – 2:56 # "

" (Jagger, Richards) – 5:20 # "It's a Plain Shame" – 3:14 # "Oh for Another Day" – 3:53 Side Two # "All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side)" – 6:36 # "The Lodger" – 5:44 # "Hard" – 4:30 # "Alright" – 4:26

Personnel

*Peter Frampton – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar,

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

, keyboards, drums, percussion,

dulcimer The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

, vocals *

Frank Carillo Frank Carillo (born July 14, 1950) is an American rock musician. In 1971, manager Phil Lorito formed a band around Frank Carillo called Doc Holliday, with Carillo, Bob Mayo, Tom Arlotta and Bob Liggio. In 1973 they released one album, ''Doc Hollid ...

– rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Mick Jones – rhythm guitar on "All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)" *

– bass guitar, Hammond organ,

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

, percussion, backing vocals *

Rick Wills Richard William Wills (born 5 December 1947) is an English bass guitarist. He is best known for his work with the rock band Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces, Peter Frampton, Spooky Tooth, David Gilmour, Bad Company and The J ...

– bass guitar *

– bass guitar on "Alright" *

– piano, Hammond organ on "Alright" *

– drums, percussion *

– drums on "Alright" and "The Lodger" *

Chris Karan Chris Karan (born Chrisostomos Karanikis, 14 October 1939) is a Britain-based Australian jazz drummer and percussionist of Greek descent. Life and career Karan was born in 1939 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Karan played in The Three Out t ...

–

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...

s on "Lady Lieright" *

Frank Ricotti Frank Ricotti (born 31 January 1949) is an English jazz vibraphonist and percussionist. Early life and education Ricotti was born in London, England. His father was a drummer. Bill Ashton, founder of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NY ...

– shaker on "Lady Lieright" *

Del Newman Derrick Martin "Del" Newman (5 October 1930 – 10 August 2020) was a British conductor, orchestral arranger and music producer. His orchestral arrangements appeared on songs by many rock and pop artists from the 1960s to the 1990s, including Ca ...

– strings arrangements, flute,

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

* Jim Price – brass on "The Lodger"

Production

*Producers:

*Engineers:

Charts

Album Single

References

{{Authority control Peter Frampton albums 1972 debut albums Albums produced by Chris Kimsey Albums produced by Peter Frampton A&M Records albums Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios